Find and rank quality YouTube videos into Google Sheets

Searches YouTube with your topics, filters out low-quality videos, and ranks the best results into a spreadsheet.

How the work actually flows

A straight line.

Pattern: Sequence (1)

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Build size
Advanced

A larger build with multiple systems, AI reasoning, and custom rules.

Business functions
Spreadsheet & Database OpsEducation & Training
Connects
YouTubeGoogle Sheets

The problem it solves

Sifting through hundreds of YouTube search results to find genuinely useful videos, while skipping shorts and clickbait, takes far longer than it should. Building a curated list by hand for research or a course means watching or skimming way more than you need to.

Who it fits

Content creators, educators, and researchers building curated video resource lists.

How it works

  1. You run it manually whenever you want fresh results
  2. It searches YouTube using a set of topic queries you define
  3. It filters out shorts, spam, and low-quality videos
  4. It scores the remaining videos by relevance and engagement
  5. The top-ranked videos are exported to Google Sheets
What you get

Curated video lists ready before you decide

The best YouTube videos on your topics land in a ranked spreadsheet ready for you to browse.

What you get

A ranked spreadsheet of the top quality videos for your chosen topics.

What you need

A YouTube Data API key and a Google Sheets account.

We can build this. But should you?

The hard question is not how to build it. It is whether this is the right thing to build first.

That is what a Fractional Chief AI Officer figures out with you, before anyone writes a line of code.

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